Melody Vocab Flashcards
Anacrusis
Upbeat
Appoggiatura
Longer crushed note
Arpeggio
Broken chords
Auxiliary note
A non chord note between 2 harmony notes
Blues note
A ‘bent’ note - could be flatter
Call and response
2 phrases played by different musicians, one in response to the other
Conjunct
A melody in steps
Disjunct
A melody mainly in leaps
Glissando
Sliding between 2 notes
Improvisation
Making something up as you play it
Inversion
Changing the order of chords
Legato
Playing something with a more flowing, longer feel
Melodic articulation
The musical performance technique that effects the note
Melodic augmentation
Slowing down the lengths of the notes
Melodic diminution
Playing notes shorter than they are
Melodic fragmentation
A songwriting technique …?
Melodic intervals
The distance between 2 notes
Mordant
The alteration of a note to the notes above and below it
Note of anticipation
When one or two notes of the chord are played earlier (usually at the end of a piece)
Acciaccatura
Crushed note
Passing note
Foreign to the harmony - between two notes to produce a melodic transition
Pitch bend
A note that is varied in pitch
Portamento
Sliding from one note to another
Riff/ostinato
Short repeated phrase
Rubato
Temporary free tempo
Scalic melody
Melody made up of notes from one particular scale
Sequence
Playing a motif more than once in a higher or lower pitch
Staccato
Short, snappy notes
Triadic melody
A melody made from the notes of a triad
Trill
Quavering or vibratory sound
Turn
Ornamentation of notes around a principal note
